He thinks of me as his ally in his never ending battle to repel neighborhood cats, dogs, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, bobcats, great horned owls, and other assorted vermin from using his dirt baths, gravel baths, and litter boxes.

He thinks of me as his ally in his never ending battle to repel neighborhood cats, dogs, raccoons, squirrels, foxes, bobcats, great horned owls, and other assorted vermin from using his dirt baths, gravel baths, and litter boxes.

My remaining cat dropped a live mouse on my forehead while I was sleeping six years ago, and to this day I'm unsure about whether or not he was showing me how to hunt or telling me to fark off. One thing is for sure, I didn't sleep in the bedroom again until that mouse was caught. I briefly toyed with idea of not feeding the cat until he learned mice were food, but my wife nixed it.

My outside orange cat I've never met just likes the food I put out for him/her. I don't know if it belongs to someone or was just dumped by some typical city person. It needs to stop farking with my quail friends.

My ex-owner (passed on a few years back) mostly thought of me as a petting machine, at least those times she was awake and not ignoring me. A couple times a day she would think of me as the magician. Or should I say The Magician! because of the miracle of can-opening-hands.

Depends on the cat and the person. My cats see everyone else in the house as other cats. They see me as a magical being. Here's why :

Everyone in the house shares cat care duties except litter box cleaning. For some reason I'm the only person who does it on a regular basis. Cats fully understand providing food, grooming and affection. They do that naturally. However, I make the poopies disappear. Cats instinctively bury their waste, but they know it's still there. Making poop vanish to them is a godlike power. It's something beyond there abilities. That makes me their favorite.

"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."

log_jammin:And when your feline friend brings you the occasional dead rodent or half-eaten insect, it's not a gift or an attempt to feed you.Your cat simply wants a safe place to eat his kill. When he bites into his catch, he realizes the food you provide tastes better, so he leaves the remains of the prey behind.

big pig peaches:Depends on the cat and the person. My cats see everyone else in the house as other cats. They see me as a magical being. Here's why :

Everyone in the house shares cat care duties except litter box cleaning. For some reason I'm the only person who does it on a regular basis. Cats fully understand providing food, grooming and affection. They do that naturally. However, I make the poopies disappear. Cats instinctively bury their waste, but they know it's still there. Making poop vanish to them is a godlike power. It's something beyond there abilities. That makes me their favorite.

Rocket To Russia:log_jammin: And when your feline friend brings you the occasional dead rodent or half-eaten insect, it's not a gift or an attempt to feed you.Your cat simply wants a safe place to eat his kill. When he bites into his catch, he realizes the food you provide tastes better, so he leaves the remains of the prey behind.

Nogale:big pig peaches: Depends on the cat and the person. My cats see everyone else in the house as other cats. They see me as a magical being. Here's why :

Everyone in the house shares cat care duties except litter box cleaning. For some reason I'm the only person who does it on a regular basis. Cats fully understand providing food, grooming and affection. They do that naturally. However, I make the poopies disappear. Cats instinctively bury their waste, but they know it's still there. Making poop vanish to them is a godlike power. It's something beyond there abilities. That makes me their favorite.

Nogale:big pig peaches: Depends on the cat and the person. My cats see everyone else in the house as other cats. They see me as a magical being. Here's why :

Everyone in the house shares cat care duties except litter box cleaning. For some reason I'm the only person who does it on a regular basis. Cats fully understand providing food, grooming and affection. They do that naturally. However, I make the poopies disappear. Cats instinctively bury their waste, but they know it's still there. Making poop vanish to them is a godlike power. It's something beyond there abilities. That makes me their favorite.

How do they know you're the one who does it?

They have eyes and ears. They always come to investigate when they hear scratching around in the litter.

I've only ever actually seen my cat Smokey hunt and kill mice,her and my sister's mini schnauzer Ziggy got all of them. It was beautiful cause Smokey hates the shiat out of dogs,she attacked a pitbull once,yet they were working together to get those mice.

The conclusions reached in this study/article were beyond idiotic. For instance, they use the modern practices of spaying and neutering to dictate the long term genetic development regarding domestication. But those programs have existed on a wide scale only in the modern era. And cats, like dogs, have been bred for purpose, hence the wide variety of breeds. And the whole article reads like that, just this long winded denial of reality.

Your cat knows that you are not another cat. You don't smell like a cat, look like a cat, act like a cat. But the cat only knows so many ways to behave, so many ways to show ownership or affection. It treats you like another cat because it doesn't have any other way to treat you.

CRtwenty:Catlenfell: If cats were the same size as people, they would consider us prey.

Jarhead_h:Your cat knows that you are not another cat. You don't smell like a cat, look like a cat, act like a cat. But the cat only knows so many ways to behave, so many ways to show ownership or affection. It treats you like another cat because it doesn't have any other way to treat you.

CRtwenty: Catlenfell: If cats were the same size as people, they would consider us prey.

I've worked at a rescue and there are plenty of cats that hate other cats but like people or vice versa. Cats can differentiate species. That a cat treats human they like like cats is probably the most astute thing I have ever heard on the topic. You must be some kind of animal scientician.

Seriously, it's not cats treating us like cats, it cats just acting like cats. (or more like perma-kittens).

My Orange is an idiot, plain and simple..but the smartest, sweetest, most cunning and brutal idiot a cat could be..

Lost both his brothers when we moved from 'city' to BFE-here (really.. Last census I can find has the whole town a bit over 900 pop and ethnic breakdown includes 1 'african american' and 0.7 of 'asian' descent.. *0.7*..!!! How the he11 do you get *that* figure..?!?!), over two years ago..and I was *certain* he was the one that rural life would kill inside a week.. Ghost and Silver were both gone within five months.. :/

He sees the two other humans in the house as adversaries..and they are..they actively dislike him, even though they were the two who brought the trio home as kittens.. Maybe they resent him for surviving..? Dunno.. Mind you, they are not cruel to him and keep up with food, water and doing best can be done to make sure he's back inside on bad weather nites.. I honestly think they don't consciously realize I keep food and water for him up in my room (my bad, I meant "My Evil Operational Central Nexus of Pending Global Domination"), and I am not about to disabuse them of the notion..

The tortoises and fish are transparent to him. No impact or attention at all. Now, I understand it with the torts..they're just rocks that move a little faster than other rocks..but the fish..? No clue..that was a bit of a surprise..

Now, the snake (up in my room)..? He'll paw at her screen when she's out and active..pads only, no claws.. Really, she's far more aggressive towards him and I keep them apart fer the cat's safety.. ;P

Then come the dogs..two 90+lb Black Labs..father and son.. We got Orange when the dad was around 3 and before the son came on the scene.. He regards them as really big and stupid cats..that he's in charge of.. The elder treats him as an equal and the younger *tries* to treat him as a brother and a toy.. The 'toy' part is just 'bout when Orange sends the pup (Bandit) yipping away to contemplate his transgressions and nurse a sore nose..

VendorXeno:The conclusions reached in this study/article were beyond idiotic. For instance, they use the modern practices of spaying and neutering to dictate the long term genetic development regarding domestication. But those programs have existed on a wide scale only in the modern era. And cats, like dogs, have been bred for purpose, hence the wide variety of breeds. And the whole article reads like that, just this long winded denial of reality.

He may still be right, though. Feral cats are still around and available to many house cats for reproduction, and have been for centuries. I suspect it would have been much harder for a dog to find a wolf to mate with (or vice versa).

big pig peaches:Nogale: big pig peaches: Depends on the cat and the person. My cats see everyone else in the house as other cats. They see me as a magical being. Here's why :

Everyone in the house shares cat care duties except litter box cleaning. For some reason I'm the only person who does it on a regular basis. Cats fully understand providing food, grooming and affection. They do that naturally. However, I make the poopies disappear. Cats instinctively bury their waste, but they know it's still there. Making poop vanish to them is a godlike power. It's something beyond there abilities. That makes me their favorite.

How do they know you're the one who does it?

They have eyes and ears. They always come to investigate when they hear scratching around in the litter.

Derkins:big pig peaches: Nogale: big pig peaches: Depends on the cat and the person. My cats see everyone else in the house as other cats. They see me as a magical being. Here's why :

Everyone in the house shares cat care duties except litter box cleaning. For some reason I'm the only person who does it on a regular basis. Cats fully understand providing food, grooming and affection. They do that naturally. However, I make the poopies disappear. Cats instinctively bury their waste, but they know it's still there. Making poop vanish to them is a godlike power. It's something beyond there abilities. That makes me their favorite.

How do they know you're the one who does it?

They have eyes and ears. They always come to investigate when they hear scratching around in the litter.

VendorXeno:The conclusions reached in this study/article were beyond idiotic. For instance, they use the modern practices of spaying and neutering to dictate the long term genetic development regarding domestication. But those programs have existed on a wide scale only in the modern era. And cats, like dogs, have been bred for purpose, hence the wide variety of breeds. And the whole article reads like that, just this long winded denial of reality.

I agree.Dogs do the same thing (sniffing crotch/butts, submissive/dominant behavior, will howl if you play an instrument etc.). Cats and Dogs can just as easily be behaving this way because that's how they roll, not because they are doing the equivalent of anthropomorphizing you (animalization?).